حِلْمٌ

[Forbearance; clemency;] the quality of forgiving and concealing [offences]: (Msb:) or moderation; gentleness; deliberateness; a leisurely manner of proceding, or of deportment, &c.; patience, as meaning contr. of hastiness: gravity; staidness; sedateness; calmness: synonym أَنَاةٌ: (S, K:) or these qualities with power or ability [to exercise the contrary qualities]; explained by أَنَاةٌ and سُكُونٌ with قُدْرَةٌ and قُوَّةٌ: (Kull p. 167:) or the management of one's soul and temper on the occasion of excitement of anger: (TA:) or tranquillity on the occasion of emotion of anger: or delay in requiting the wrongdoer: (KT:) it is described by the term ثِقَلٌ, or gravity; like as its contr. [سَفَهٌ] is described by the terms خِقَّةٌ and عَجَلٌ, or levity, or lightness, and hastiness: (TA in article رجح:) also (assumed tropical:) intelligence; (K;) which is not its proper signification, but a meaning assigned because it is one of the results of intelligence: and ↓ حَلْمٌ, with fet-h, is likewise said to have this last meaning; but this requires consideration: (TA:) the former is one of those inf. ns. that are [used as simple substs., and therefore] pluralized: (ISd, TA:) the plural [of pauc.] is أَحْلَامٌ and [of mult.] حُلُومٌ. (K.) Hence, in the Qur'an, 52:32, أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَامُهُمْ بِهٰذَا (K,) said to mean (assumed tropical:) Do their understandings enjoin them this? (TA.) And أُولُو الأَحْلَامِ, occurring in a tradition, means (assumed tropical:) Persons of understanding. (TA.)